SII 12.16: original edition by V. Venkatasubba Ayyar No. 16. (A.R. No. 65 of 1909). TIRUKKAḺUKKUṈṞAM, CHINGLEPUT TALUK, CHINGLEPUT DISTRICT. ON THE SECOND PILLAR IN THE UPPER VERANDAH OF THE ORUKAL-MAṆḌAPA ON THE HILL. author of digital edition Emmanuel Francis DHARMA Paris, CEIAS DHARMA_INSSIIv12p0i0016 DHARMAbase

This is a damaged record engraved in Tamil characters, belonging to Narasiṅgappōttaraśar ‘who took Vātāpi (Bādāmi)’ and it mentions the god of ‘Mūlasthāna on the hill.’ The Mūlasthāna temple, according to a recordEpigraphia Indica Vol. III. pp. 277 ff. of Rājakēsarivarman Āditya I, existed from the time of Skandaśishya whose endowment to it was confirmed by Vātāpikoṇḍa Narasiṁhavarman. Skandaśishya may be identified with Skandasēna the excavator of the cave at Vallam in the Chingleput district. The rock-cut maṇḍapa where the present inscription is found, is described in detail in the Epigraphical Report for 1909, page 72 and in the Memoir of the Archaeological Survey of India, No. 17, pages 19-21.

It may be pointed out here that this is the third early Pallava inscription engraved in Tamil characters, so far known, the other two being those found in the caves at Vallam in the Chingleput district,This inscription is published with plates in South Indian Inscriptions, Vol. II, pp. 340 ff. and at Tirumayyam in the Pudukkottai State.No. 7a above, fn. 1

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Published in the Epigraphical Report for 1932-1933, page 55.The blank in l. 3 of this page may be filled with the letters taṉ-kūṟṟu.

Digital edition of SII 12.16 by converted to DHARMA conventions by Emmanuel Francis.

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